XDefiant has been Xcecuted. After numerous leaks alleging dire performance, Ubisoft have killed their Free to Play live service CoD competitor.
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Sources:
https://x.com/PixelsofMark/status/1846272225491484763
https://x.com/PixelsofMark/status/1809020713954914444
https://x.com/PixelsofMark/status/1864090964748321266
https://x.com/PixelsofMark/status/1771703474377367905
https://www.reddit.com/r/XDefiant/comments/1gygy3s/genuinely_hyped_for_season_3/
https://www.reddit.com/r/XDefiant/comments/1gygy3s/comment/lyoxmkx/
https://insider-gaming.com/behind-xdefiant-toxic-work-culture-crunch-and-years-of-delays
https://insider-gaming.com/xdefiant-player-numbers-2/
00:00 Another Dead Game
01:21 RIP These Players Specifically
04:38 Pulling The Plug
10:06 Ubisoft’s CEO Is In Trouble
13:11 BUT WHAT ARE NEXT?
15:06 This Are Next!
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Damn, this one I never even heard about until now.
I love x-defiant, why they have to kill good studios when we can know singapore, mumbai and pune are not upto the job. why don't they released it on steam? they ruined R6 with weird and unrelated operators
Ah ok. Live service.
Sucks for those players that paid money for any aspect of it.
"Live Service" is a red flag in general to be wary of.
i liked the game when ever i was able to get into a match my problem que time and when i got into it a hacker would be in there jumping to the moon and just lock on one tap me. and every time i left i kept getting in the same game he was and i had to quit cause it was just dead and unplayable for me saddly. everyone else seem to be fine i just had very bad luck with the game
I've seen more people cry about the death of this game then actually played it. If it was so great the player count should have reflected that.
damn, if i´d work for ubisoft i would start searching for other job options.
They will fire alot sooner or later anyways.
I never really understood why ubisoft is trying to copy games like cod, or fortnite or whatever flavor of the week genre, they have Rainbow six, a unique series that only ubisoft has, yet they keep throwing away money with copycat projects and making baffling decisions one after another. As a publisher they have no focus or any remaining original ideas…
Blacklist all Ubisoft management from working in the industry ever again. They proved year after year that these guys dont know how to make games. Im waiting for Ubisoft to shutter its door. Good Riddance.
CEO is a businessman not a real gamer
No marketing
No Steam or epic releases
CEO is so hard-headed that he belive Ubisoft connect is a better client
AND SUPPORT IS NOT EVEN PLAYING THE GAME.
Ngl I had a bunch of fun playing this game when it launched. Then the cue times, the Ubisoft client and THE HACKERS happened and this was after like 2 weeks or something.
It was genuinely fun but my god when every game was booting you or had hackers or the Ubisoft client just logged you out and wanted to keep you out. You kinda stop playing the game and move on to new places
I played it and I’m honestly disappointed. This game was super fun. First time in a long time I actually had fun with a pvp game. Hate Ubisoft and all but my god was this game good. Super sad to see it go
LMAO, this is the way to do bussieness 2024/2025, Sad to see so bad and clueless management.
Subbed, enjoy!
Ubisoft is killing almost as many games as Google has dead projects. Or at least it feels like that.
I think when Ubisoft became so large people started comparing it to EA, Yves got a bit confused about what it means.
12:12 They still have Anno, and with Pax Romana they will deliver one of the best Annos of all time
I didn't even know it had been released because it's not on steam lol.
1:36 Game had such good potential, only problem was Ubisoft. Ironic that less than a couple of weeks after my post on the xd sub they pulled the plug on the game.
Shouldn’t have expected so much of a game from a company that wants to normalise people not owning the games they play.
This is why I’ve not played any online, live service games for years. There is just no point putting my time into something that will vanish within a couple of years.
Its always so weird to hear about a AAA game that might as well not exist for how much i heard about it. DEADLOCK HAD BETTER MARKETING (probably due to being an actually good game)
Ubisoft forcing PC players to use crossplay, console players get to turn it off. Rainbow six siege.
friend was exited for this game but i refused to try it out cause i wont use Ubisoft launcher
should have just gone onto steam with it but no u-play just works so great i played it 1-2 times but then never bothered again because it's on ubisofts launcher XD
Ubisoft has to be one of the dumbest studios out there but then there is 343i oh sorry Halo studios….
The one that I still don't understand is canceling Heartland. I know the game wasn't everyone's style. But I was lucky and got invited for all the testing. That game was ready for release and didn't even get a chance.
One easy thing ubi can do to improve their sales is to remove uplay from most everything.
AH NO STEAM LUCH THAT EXPLAYNS WHY I HAWENT HEARD ABAUT THIS GAME MOUST PC PLAYERS ARE ON STEAM SO YE NO WONDER
they killed the wrong game
I forgot this game existed. Had heard of it only once before this video.
I have to google any of these factions.
they cancel the one redeeming project Ubisoft had going for its imagine and you know what's most disheartening? that Ubisoft has 20,000 employees (most out of any triple A company), but they fuss over 200 employees "relocating them to other projects" from a project that could've been able to hold its own after a while?
this just shows you that company is massively mismanaged and there's too much office politics and cronyism within its structure.
John 11:35, that's clever 🤣
turned my back to ubisoft over ten years ago, terrible company
Thankfully, no Guillemont has to face consequences for ruining the lives of 300 families. That would be a tragedy.
This is why I don't play Ubi or many live service games in general. Can take it away from you whenever.
If its not on steam Im not playing. So simple as.
When will they learn that every time someone says "if you don't like this or that, don't buy/play/move on", the community WILL do just that.
Seeing The Phantoms was such a kick in the gut, a game I actually enjoyed quite a lot back in the day
And may I add a game that wasn't jus another CoD clone
and that of course was shut down
If Concord didnt have the plug pulled and refunded, do u think XDefiant would have carried on if Concord went an extra year?
They should have made a complete AAA game, with a F2P component. It can borrow from CoD, but it must have a proper personality, and unique and charismatic characters. They should have made a modern settings Brothers in Arms (if they own the IP), or a unique thing like The Division.
Never heard of this game till now…
Huh. Wasn't quite awake yet and read it first as "two students dead, 300 something something kill…" and wondered why I had half-hourly murica news in my tab.
Well. Gotta use the catchy words, I guess.
Never even heard of that game.
I still am quite happy to not own Ubisoft games.
There finally understanding no one asked for games like this they know there loosing money they got to work on games that make them money we need more games like division,wildlands,breakpoint etc
Ubisoft keeps not launching and putting their games on Steam. Some of these games I have never even heard of and that has got to hurt their sales. The other thing is they have this history of making single player games that require an online connection so when they turn off the game servers you lose access to the DLC or parts of the game.
Ubisoft has done this to themselves. They are anticonsumer and as a results they don't have enough consumers.
The map in the video seem a lot like the theme from farcry new dawn. It isnt bad but damn do they reuse so many of their assets
Never even heard of "XDefiant" until now. Ah well, good riddance to bad rubbish.
If they had launched it on steam a significant mount of people would have played it. I didn't play it because i didnt want ubisofts launcher as its not good. So many people would have played it when it came to steam.